— Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum pointed to national security as the biggest issue for next year's presidential race, and touted his own resume to the conservatives here evaluating a pack of potential candidates. Santorum, the runner-up for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential primaries, avoided the social issues for which he had been known for tackling as he addressed the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Instead, he focused on the growing threats he says are facing the country from Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria. Those threats will make the 2016 contest a different race from the one three years ago, when a last-minute surge in Iowa...

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